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Kacūra leaves are listed among leaf vegetables said to remove pitta, increase kapha, give strength and suit those with blood disorders.

White punarnavā is listed among greens said to remove pitta and kapha, subdue worms and remove skin diseases.

हिन्दी: कचूर, आमिया हलदी, गंधपलाशी, छोटा कचूर · मराठी: कापुर काचरी, कचोरा

हिन्दी: साठी, साठी धान्य · मराठी: साठे साळी

A complication of emesis named as the counterpart of the anal parikartika of purgation, described as a scraping pain in the throat.

Cañcu (चेवुना) is listed among greens described as binding the stool and producing vata; a footnote gives its synonyms ciñcā, cañcu, cañcukī, dīrghapatrā and satiktakā.

हिन्दी: शटी भेद, खुरासानी अजवान · मराठी: किरमाणी, ओवा

Barley, like wheat, is said to resemble sesame but to be cold, strengthening and strongly aphrodisiac; the commentary says that when unripe they are strength-giving and nourishing.

For the earth kalpa the text takes the earth that birds eat every day.

Guñjā (ghuṅghacī) is named among the plants whose root holds poison.

Pākhar fruit (written 'पीपल की पाखर'), as one of the milky trees, is listed among fruits said to bind the stool strongly, to be cold and to be wholesome in pitta and kapha disorders.

Shāli rice is described as sweet and cooling and light in digestion, and therefore as removing pitta, increasing kapha and bringing on much urine.

The introduction defines bala as the strength of the body and says it is of three kinds: arising from time (kālaja), inborn (sahaja) and produced by proper means (yuktikṛta).

The text names the qualities that count as potency (virya) as unctuous, sharp, slimy, dry, hot, cold, clear and soft.

Astringent preparations (kashaya) and cow's urine together with jasmine flowers and sprouts are said always to remove all diseases of the mouth.